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upmultimedia, 2 days ago to retrogaming

"Peacekeeper Command-O" (2018), a fun two player homebrew game running on my Odyssey emulator.

It's a bit like Missile Command (1980).

Only five physical copies of Peacekeeper were made but you can play it with Magnavody!

#MagnavoxOdyssey #magnavody #retrogaming

Two bright spots battle it out on a TV screen. One is heading towards four city sprites and one is defending them.

upmultimedia, 7 days ago to random

Classic Star Treks like Enterprise and Voyager have some pretty cool episodes but then every so often they'll do multi season arcs with mincing aliens in unflattering leotards or wigs

#startrek

upmultimedia, 9 days ago to gamedev

I consider tutorials a failure of design and work hard so people of all skill levels should be able to just pick up and play one of my games.

Obviously I usually fall waaaay short of that lofty goal but just watched someone play Liberation and they did mostly figure it out. Good feeling.

#indiedev #gamedev #LiberationGame

upmultimedia, 13 days ago (edited 11 days ago) to random

Gamer new to 6DoF genre: Hi I like Descent (1995) and I'm looking for something similar but more modern?

Space game fans: You simply must play Freespace 2 (1999).

#games #6dof

upmultimedia, 14 days ago to random

I would love* it if we started discovering hundreds of rocky earth-like exoplanets with our fancy space telescopes but every single one was 450C due to a run away greenhouse effect

upmultimedia, 16 days ago (edited 16 days ago) to Eurovision

Trying to avoid #Eurovision this year but when the didgeridoo came out on stage I was so proud of our entry 🦘

upmultimedia, 21 days ago to random

How close are we to replacing power sockets with univeral power/data cables? So, for example, your fridge plugs into the wall using USB-C.

upmultimedia, 23 days ago to random

Finally got to join an obscure fandom forum that is the direct descendant of a usenet group that is the direct descendant of a 1980s fanzine.

It took six months for my signup to be approved and it involved two rounds of questions and an email interview. That's how you know it's the good stuff.

The community internet is better than ever. It's the corporate internet that is falling apart.

upmultimedia, 24 days ago (edited 24 days ago) to random

Swords really were the fancy cars of 3000 years ago. You just know every young guy was going into hock to get something ostentatious they probably never needed or could comfortably afford.

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to godot

Oh no for the first time I did an Internet search for something godot related and I got a low information SEO godot course sales page instead of open source documentation. It was a good clean run for six years :(

#godotengine #foss

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to MadMax

New ship for #LiberationGame -- the garbage scowl. Even though the game is inspired by UK scifi I have to slip in a bit of Australian post-apocalyptic fetish aesthetic every now and then.

Luckily it doubles as a "are you mummy" / cyberman tear drop kind of thing too.

#madmax #scifi #doctorwho

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upmultimedia, 1 month ago to Discord

Discord developers writing extra code to make sure their invite links expire by default

#discord #space1999

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to random

New update for Magnavody, my #MagnavoxOdyssey simulator

Odyssey (1972) could only render four spots on screen (two player blobs, a wall and a ball) but it achieved better colour and resolution than future consoles by the simple but genius move of including plastic overlays to stick on the TV. Of course, the framerate was terrible, limited to how quickly you peel it off and on

This update adds digital overlays! Standard, widescreen and crumpled (for authenticity)

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/2695020/view/4211503960785328025

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to retrogaming

The Odyssey video console (1972) could only draw a few blobs so to provide variety Magnavox included semi-transparent physical overlays for players to stick on their TV screens (eg a green tennis court for a tennis game). Genius!

After a lot of prototyping, here's my attempt at a physical overlay in my simemulator, Magnavody (and a real life pic for comparison). I really want to capture the fidelity of the experience eventually.

#magnavoxodyssey #magnavody #retrogaming

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upmultimedia, 1 month ago to gaming

A genuinely valuable collectible is to be one of the first 10 reviews of an indie game on Steam (it's a special threshold for visibility).

Permanently time stamped, verified and on display on one of the largest websites on Earth.

Better than an NFT or steam achievement!

#gaming #indiedev #indiegame #steam #games

upmultimedia, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Maybe the actual value of LLM is a large body of data with heaps of metatags.

Me: I would like the cover of every 1980s scifi book that features a pastel car.

OpenAI: We've got a database of those! Do you want them all mashed up?

Me: Errr, no. Thanks for tagging it all though.

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to movies

I really love that soft cinematography from around 2017-2022. Kind of dark pastels or a really crunched colour space without losing detail. I don't know how to describe it really. Unfortunately we already seem to be moving on from it.

#film #movie #cinematography

A screenshot from Bladerunner 2049 of people in a busy food court.
A screenshot from The Batman (2022)
A screenshot from Riverdale (2017) of a brightly lit yet muted diner at night

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to random

Cats (2019) is literally the last cultural artefact produced before that ancient civilisation was destroyed by COVID. In hindsight it was obvious the destination was oblivion. The centre cannot hold.

#film #movie #cats

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to random

via Haus of Decline

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to gamedev

They only want you when you're upcoming, when you're recently released you're no fun.

#indiedev #gamedev

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to random

Love this pic of two people sharing a moment

(via Dustin Clauß)

https://www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/ein-mantel-der-fuer-lachen-sorgt-100.html

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to random

The #xz hack has really got me going through my router settings closing off all the port forwards 😅

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to random

The "xz backdoor" hack unfolding in the linux world tonight is SO EFFING interesting. Obviously the full facts are unknown but on the surface it looks like a beautiful piece of bastardry. A multi-year long con of code commits with multiple levels of social engineering attacks

upmultimedia, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Thinking of switching to Moon time. I don't like how UTC has been devalued by the culture war around daylight savings and to be honest I've been uncomfortable with its imperial origins for a while

upmultimedia, 1 month ago to scifi

Servalan has more style and poise in one finger than any other evil doer in all of science fiction

#blakes7 #scifi

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